Gov’t to work with Taruka on rice cultivation

Residents of Taruka (GINA photo)

Four government ministers completed an outreach recently to the North Pakaraimas, Region Eight and help was pledged for rice cultivation.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a release that Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, headed a team which visited Taruka, Bamboo Creek, Tuseneng, Monkey Mountain and Paramakatoi.

Minister Whittaker said that his ministry is excited to learn that Taruka and other villages are moving into rice cultivation, and as such were provided with machinery both from the